In the dark tunnels beneath city streets

AN ODYSSEY DOWN UNDER

Undeterred by places dark and dank, by mud and rodents and insects, and by the unknown, photographer Edwin Remsberg explored the landscape beneath our streets for a month.

He was captivated, he says, by the promise of sights unfamiliar to all who spend the waking hours topside.

So he donned a mask to hike in the city storm drain, where oxygen can be scarce. He rode on the nose of a locomotive as it lumbered through the Howard Street Tunnel. He joined a laborer in the black depths of the Baltimore & Potomac railroad tunnel. The photographs he came away with take us into the world of the laborers and other workers who routinely go below.